Amazing Experience with Edge of Africa

I spent 6 weeks with Edge of Africa in August/September 2011 and would recommend this organisation to everyone. The staff are absolutely amazing and they are so passionate about their projects. I feel so lucky and blessed to have been able to have been apart of this.

I was registered on the Build Our Schools project where I would have spent the morning at the pre school helping with the regeneration and the afternoons were spent with the other volunteers on various community projects. I was very apprehensive about making this trip as I was worried about becoming bored on the building site or feeling isolated as I was the only volunteer on this project. The Edge staff always made sure that there was someone with me on site and that I would have had my afternoons at different projects so that boredom would not be an issue.

The Edge Staff are such wonderful and inspiring people. At the end of every week they conduct a personal evaluation to ensure that you are happy on your project, provide any support needed or edit your time table if something is wrong. For example I found that teaching at the pre school was to difficult due to language barriers and that I was bored as I was not able to be involed in the Xhosa teaching, so my timetable was editted so that I didn't take part in any more teaching. The organisation is flexible allowing you to spend more or less time on the projects of your choice once you arrive.

I would seriously recommend this organisation if there is a project that you have a passion for.